I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Robert Capa

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
John Sexton

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
Gordon Parks

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.
Graeme Le Saux

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
Graham Nash

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
Bill Brandt

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
Jock Sturges

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Helmut Newton

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
Margaret O'Brien

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
Graeme Le Saux

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Minor White

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
Edward Steichen

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell